Texas veterans returned home after World War II to find a State revolutionized by the wartime economy. Factories and training centers had become more important than farms and ranches, and the oil industry had branched out into high quality plastic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
World War II fundamentally changed Texas both in her economic and her cultural sectors. The federal government needed factories, hospitals, schools, and military bases, and Texas had plenty of young men looking for better opportunities. Nearly a million of them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As I write this, the Corona Virus has killed just over 100 Americans, and we have cases in both the Western and Eastern seaboards. Though most are in the west, which makes a certain amount of sense when you consider[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The stock market collapse on Black Friday of 1929 nearly destroyed the Texas economy, and the Dust Bowl that followed ruined what farms survived. City workers lost their jobs, farmers lost their farms, Mexican citizens were sent home with one-way[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Texas spent the first three decades of the Twentieth Century expanding their economy in an onrushing boom that seemingly nothing could stop. Eastern cotton plantations generated a strong cash crop, northern ranchers fed beef to the nation, western oil wells[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Texas economy was fundamentally changed in 1901 when they found oil. It could be used to make fuel for the growing numbers of personal vehicles spreading throughout America, but so could crops. All major vehicles of the time could[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency was a time of great change in the United States of America. His Democrats passed the 16th Amendment that overruled the Supreme Court ban on Federal Income Taxes, and he quickly initiated the first income taxes in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though the Democrats dominated national Congressional politics in the later years of the 19th Century, they only managed to elect New York’s Glover Cleveland to the Presidency. Republican Presidents like Benjamin Harrison continued to push the restoration of Negro rights,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Negroes banned from carrying weapons to defend themselves and successfully denied the right to vote, what power base Republicans had in Texas and the other Southern States effectively evaporated. The literacy tests and poll taxes also weeded out many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah…I just passed my birthday again. At over forty, that puts me solid into the middling of my years, unless my plan to live forever works out. Then I’m just starting on this merry go round. 😉 I got a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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